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I thought it would be fun to transcribe the drunk calls I got from A-Ron and Bean last night.  Normally such calls would not be for public consumption, but these were too fucking funny not to share.

Call #1, from A-Ron, received 3:53 AM:

A-Ron:  Ohhhh, my name is Jooooe, I turn off my phooone, on New Years Eeeeve...
Bean (in background):  (laugh)  You suck!!  Woooooo!!

Call #2, from A-Ron, received 3:59 AM:

A-Ron:  Only faggots... forward their fucking calls to a voice messaging system... I want to say Happy New Year... and that you're a faggot...
Bean (in background):  (laughing)  Wooooo!   Faggot!
A-Ron:  Jill says Wooo!! Faggot!! Hope you guys had a good night, hope you have a good New Year... either way, you're gaaaaayyyy...
Bean (in background):  Woooooooo!! Gaaaaaay!!
A-Ron:  (laughing)  If you're uh... still up... cuz you said you're like an insomniac and shit... give us a call cuz we're still up.  If not... uh.. fuck your mom and stuff... and that'd be Jill's mom too so fuck Jill's mom and stuff.  Byyyeee...
Bean (in background):  Wooooooo!!! (inaudible hilarious yelling that sounded like "Yattaaaaaaa!!!" like Hiro on Heroes)
A-Ron:  I don't know what Jill just said but bye.

Call #3, from Bean, received 4:04 AM:

Bean:  Joey!!  You're.. so (laughs)... totally (laughs more)... missing out!!  Cuz Aaron is being the funnest dancer right now ever.  (laughs)  And we're watching Office Space... And also... wait what was I gonna tell Joe again?  (A-Ron mumbles answer)  Oh!!  Did you wear eyeliner tonight?  Inquiring minds.  Come on.  Yay!!!!

Call #4, from A-Ron, received 4:06 AM:

4 seconds of silence, then:
A-Ron:  Hello?  WOOOO!!!
Bean (in background):  WOOOO!!!!

I wish I could wake up to voice mails like that every morning!! 

Love my Blackhawks, but they're not quite ready to take the crown away from the Wings.  Soon... very soon...

I loved Thomas Jones when he was with the Bears, but the fact that he spoke up and said THIS with Favre Favre Favre still on the roster makes me love him even more.  Someone needed to say it - Favre Favre Favre played like crap this year and should have been benched.  Favre Favre Favre threw 22 interceptions, most in the NFL, including nine in the final five games.  It's time we stop enshrining him in bronze and sending him to the Pro Bowl simply because his name is Favre Favre Favre and look at the facts - Brett Favre is a me first player that is simply an adequate quarterback with an extraordinarily long career.  I'd love to see someone make a logical case for why Favre Favre Favre deserves the Pro Bowl spot ahead of Chad Pennington or Matt Cassell.

The new Where's Waldo game!  Find Brett Favre on the list of QB leaders, if you can!  Hint:  Look way, way down on the list!

So, Wife and I decided to go dancing tonight, because we only got 8 or 10 hours of it last night.  We headed to Saddle Ridge, which is where in Lexington all the younguns go to drink cheap booze and grind on each other.  We got there, paid the ridiculous $10 cover charge, walked in... and saw an empty bar.  I mean empty.  Three dudes sitting around a massive bar, nursing Bud Lights and vaguely watching the Orange Bowl.  Nobody on the dance floor.  Nobody to dance.  I think even the DJ was asleep.  Come on, people!  It's the New Years!  Did nobody resolve to shake their groove thang?  So, Wife and I debated for a minute.  We're both OK with dancing by ourselves, but we at least wanted the possibility that we would be joined by other people... so we walked out.  I asked them on the way out, is there any chance we could get our cover charge back?  We came to dance... and the bar is EMPTY.  They said, well, the cover charge is for the booze... so I was like, OK.  Fine.  I wasn't happy, but I wasn't going to make a scene.  Wife and I walked out... and the bouncer came after us, with two $10s in his hand.  "Hey man, I don't want you guys going away angry, we were going to give you the money back..."  Which was really freaking cool.  I explained, you know, I'm not mad at them specifically, I just hate it in this town where they charge you cover for an empty bar.  If it's empty, just let me in, I will spend 10 times that on liquor, just because I don't feel like I was gipped right out of the gate.  He understood, and hoped we'd come back, which we totally will.  Tomorrow, in fact!  :)

Wife and I played racquetball today, I think she had fun with it.  We didn't play competitively, we just hit the ball around.  Which was fine.  After last night's drinking, and dancing, and today's buffet, and the workout we did just before racquetball, we were both pretty freaking wiped.  Bully for us for even getting out there!  I'm thinking my lower body workout tomorrow morning is going to be brutally hard...

OK, folks.  Time for yours truly to rock out on the guitar.  And yes I'm all... lit up, again... on the couch... in my bed! 

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